%0 Journal Article %T Las caracter¨ªsticas educativas de los emigrantes mexicanos a Estados Unidos %A Cuecuecha Mendoza %A Alfredo %J EconoQuantum %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this paper studies the self selection in educational characteristics of mexicans migrating to the us. this is done to determine educational self-selection, changes in self-selection in the nineties, as well as the change in the self-selection in terms of the wage distribution. the paper applies econometric techniques that control for bias by the use of endogenous samples. there are four key findings: first, self selection in the nineties was intermediate; second, self selection in 2000 was in the extremes of the education distribution: at zero years and at more than 16 years of education; third, the largest changes in migration probability were experienced by those two groups; and fourth, despite the changes in migration probabilities, the change in self selection in terms of the wage distribution is a change towards intermediate selection. %K migraci¨®n %K muestreo basado en decisiones de personas %K educaci¨®n. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1870-66222010000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en